Meaning of summa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Italian.
2. A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.
3. A culmination or archetypal example.
   figuratively

Examples

“In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.”

“The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.”

“Rockefeller Center is at once a summa of the Art Deco style, and a look ahead to the Internationalist style that dominated after World War II.”

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